Close Enemies: Why 7 November Looks Like Album Day

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With club dates stacked and five singles out across 2025, Tom Hamilton’s new outfit Close Enemies look set to land their debut album on Friday 7 November 2025. The date has been floated in recent chatter around the band’s schedule and lines up neatly with Aerosmith + YUNGBLUD’s One More Time EP on 21 November—a one-two punch of releases involving Hamilton in the same month, which would’ve sounded unthinkable a year ago post-retirement talk. To be clear: Hamilton’s direct involvement in the EP rollout timing is speculation—but moving the band’s plan from an earlier October marker to 7 November would let Close Enemies catch the tailwind from Aerosmith’s single “My Only Angel” (out 19 Sept) and then ride the broader EP spotlight.

Singles so far

  • “Sound of a Train” — 17 Jan 2025. Debut cut with a “powerful, lonesome vibe,” setting the band’s classic-leaning, blues-rock pulse.
  • “Inside Out” — 28 Feb 2025. A whirlwind, toxic-relationship snapshot “put into 3+ glorious minutes.”
  • “Sweet Baby Jesus” — 11 Apr 2025. A swaggering story about those “drop-dead gorgeous” encounters that make you blurt “sweet baby Jesus!”
  • “Rain” — 17 Jun 2025. A call to rise above adversity and spark change—“be bold, think big, dream bigger.”
  • “More Than I Could Ever Need” — 8 Aug 2025. A haunting rock ballad Hamilton wrote as a love letter to his wife of nearly 50 years.

Why the 7 Nov window makes sense

Aerosmith and YUNGBLUD’s EP lands 21 Nov, two weeks after the rumoured 7 Nov Close Enemies drop—creating momentum both on the road and in the press: two major releases connected to Aerosmith’s orbit inside one month. Even if the band nudged plans to accommodate “My Only Angel,” the sequencing makes marketing sense: Close Enemies first, then the EP amplifies overall attention. Again, Hamilton’s hand in the timing is unconfirmed; this is informed speculation based on public dates and recent interviews.

Bottom line: circle Friday 7 November 2025 for the Close Enemies album, with a couple of fresh tracks expected beyond the live-tested favourites—then watch the halo from Aerosmith x YUNGBLUD carry the buzz through late November. (We’ll update when the band posts the official artwork/track list.)

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